Olds High School grad Mitchell Ormann is pleased and grateful to have received a $25,000 President's Entrance Citation Scholarship from the University of Alberta.
Olds High School grad Mitchell Ormann is pleased and grateful to have received a $25,000 President's Entrance Citation Scholarship from the University of Alberta.
The award goes to outstanding students who have an average of 95 per cent throughout high school and are beginning their first undergraduate degrees at the U of A.
Ormann, 18, a first-year engineering student, says that money, which is paid out over four years, covers his tuition.
He will be able to continue receiving money via that scholarship each year, as long as he maintains a grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.5.
Ormann also received a few other scholarships, including one worth $8,500, another worth $2,500, as well as others that added up to $1,700.
As a result, he's been able to pay his residence fees this year and be reimbursed to the tune of $5,000. That reimbursed money will also mostly go toward residence fees in subsequent years.
Ormann says he went into engineering because "I love the sciences. It seemed the most practical, just with employment after school."
He says there are no engineers in his family.
"My family's all law; my dad's in business," he says.
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